InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Cry of the Wolf ❯ Incident! ( Chapter 1 )

I don't own Sailor Moon. I don't own Inu Yasha either (Unless you count my massive DVD collection). Those honors go to Naoko Takeuchi and Rumiko Takahashi respectively. I do own this idea as well as all the insanity involved herein.

Cry of the wolf Chapter one: Incident!

By

Lance the Flamesniper

It was cold in the North. Ever since the Great Freeze it was cold everywhere save in Crystal Tokyo. The twelve-person exploration team however was used to it. They'd been sent out a month ago to explore and map the way the world had changed. Three of the expedition carried crossbows to defend the group in the event they found some stray youma.

As the crew moved north, they noticed they were being paced by something white in the shadows. The guards acted on reflex. Three arrows later they were standing over the body of something they thought was a youma. She had red hair, green eyes, fangs and pointed ears. She was clad in white fur as well as silver and black body armor.

"What is it Briggs?" One of the three asked.

"Some kinda youma I think," Briggs replied. "Thing is that I ain't neva seen one like that before. Have you Anderson?"

"I don't think anyone has," Anderson replied.

"Then we should get the team leader out here and check it out. I'm sure she'll want to take samples and such," The first one said.

"Good idea Thomas," Briggs replied as the three left the body.

No sooner had they left then a shadow detached itself from the shadows. It scooped up the dead woman and stared balefully at the three retreating forms. They WOULD pay for this.

Several moments later a howl of rage and despair was heard echoing all the way to the camp.

Winona Wilks was a scientist of the highest degree. That was why Ami Mizuno, better known as Sailor Mercury had chosen her to lead this expedition. Winona possessed severely prudish looks that did not match the curious sparkle her eyes possessed when she was looking at something she'd never seen before. So when the trio she had dubbed the over-testosterone squad came to her with word they'd slain some kind of youma, she rushed to see it.

"This is where we left it," Briggs said as he looked at the indentation where the body had been.

"You mean you left it unguarded?" She asked then added. "YOU FOOLS!"

"My ears!" Anderson complained.

"Listen you idiots. Ever since you three got those crossbows from the armory you've been shooting anything that so much as drifted funny, then came running back to tell me about it. The one time you do something right, you manage to let it get dragged off...probably by some carrion animal. I hope you at least remembered to have the autoscanners running when you checked your latest kill?"

"We ain't that dumb," Thomas grumbled. "I keep mine running anytime I'm on guard duty."

"Then hand it over." Winona snapped. "I'll need the visual feed of your "kill" to send to Mizuno."

Thomas did as he was asked and the group walked back to camp unaware of the steely blue eyes following their movement or of the danger slowly surrounding their camp.

"Ever since the end of the Black Moon war, this place has been boring!" Grumbled a dark haired man. He could be called handsome in a word. Lean, with long black hair and violet-black eyes. He was clad today in his guard's uniform; save that he was the only guard who wore a rosary made of beads and teeth. At his hip was an ancient katana. Little did anyone know he wasn't really the way he looked. Without the disguise spells he wore, he would appear to the world to be a silver haired, yellow eyed man in a red set of fire rat armor and possessing dog ears.

"I know Inu Yasha, but in a way that's a good thing," A courtesan miko walking next to him replied. She like him could be called attractive with her modest figure, brown eyes and straight black hair. Like her guard/husband, she was more than she appeared. It was only thanks to his hanyou blood that she'd lived the last few hundred years.

As they entered the main hall, things got interesting.

"Dr. Wilks, it's an honor to hear from you," The neoqueen responded to the shaky image of on the crystal transceiver. "How goes your mission?"

"Very well your highness. Today we encountered something new that I felt required Dr. Mizuno's advice," Wilks answered. Meanwhile Inu Yasha got a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. The mission had been sent to the North and he knew who lived there very well. The sinking feeling got worse when he heard the howling in the background.

"They couldn't mean," Kagome whispered to her mate.

"I don't like this Kagome," Inu Yasha whispered back.

"Three of our party encountered a youma. Description as follows: Female form. Red hair, green eyes, pointed ears, fangs. Subject seemed to be clad in white fur and some type of armor," Wilks recounted.

With each word Inu Yasha could feel that sinking feeling increase.

"That sounds like Ayame," Kagome whispered as she tried to will away a queasy feeling in her own stomach. She didn't like how this woman kept using past tense.

"Did the subject get caught?" The neoqueen asked.

"No. Unfortunately the guards shot it. I could not do an internal examination though because the body disappeared."

"Oh shit!" Inu Yasha whispered. "Ayame's been killed...they need to get out of there fast, but even running at top speed they'd never get far enough."

As if in answer to Inu Yasha's prediction the image before them exploded into a chaos of snarls, screams and a brown and black blur that knocked the crystal over cutting off the transmission.

The attack happened without advance warning. One moment peace, the next chaos as hundreds of timber wolves descended upon the camp. The fact that they were wolves was a surprise since wolves supposedly hadn't survived the centuries. There were easily a five hundred wolves in this attack but the thing that caused them most chaos was the creature leading them. He stood on two legs clad in brown fur under black and silver armor. His eyes were blue and seemed the glow with feral rage.

"What's going on Anderson?" Briggs asked.

"Well duh, Thomas replied as he tried to sight in on the creature charging them. "We're under attack!"

"Guys look out!" Anderson cried as the monster was almost upon them.

"Now you pay for your crimes!" The warrior screamed as he went right for the three armed team members cutting them to pieces with his claws without breaking stride for the central tent.

He smashed through the tent door immediately taking out the crystal transceiver. The scientist sitting in front of it was knocked across the tent. Though dazed she still managed to look indignant.

"What is the meaning of this!?" She snapped. Then she got a good look at what she was talking to. It glared at her with venom filled eyes that spoke of barely restrained rage.

"Your men killed her. Your men paid for it severely. But paying isn't done. Until it is.... you are my prisoners!" The beast bellowed out before bringing his fist up under the scientist's chin knocking her out. He quickly slung the woman over his shoulders and looked to his wolves.

"Herd the humans into the caves. They're not to be harmed," Kouga replied then smirked to himself. "After all...they're not any good as hostages if they're dead."

TBC